tomgosse wrote:Systematiker wrote:I'll be a native speaker godparent, if you want me and there's not more qualified folks who want to do it.
I'm a US-American who has taught ESL in the USA and in Germany. I teach grad school now, primarily theology for a seminary and philosophy for a university (where my main qualifications are, I hold a research doctorate in each subject, but the philosophy one is a DA, so it's more of a generalist's degree) and team teach with the literature department at the uni. I speak standard American English and Blackwater natively, learned Transatlantic as an adult.
I think someone on this board teaches English comp somewhere, though, they may be a good choice.
Two questions:
- What is Blackwater?
- Where and how did you learn Transatlantic?
Thank you,
Tom
Blast from the past in this group! It's been dead a while.
Blackwater is a dialect centered around Northern Florida - it shares some commonalities with the general Southern, and interestingly, I've recently found out, some features with Gullah as well.
For Transatlantic, there used to be some youtube recordings of a diction course for transatlantic, but more importantly, watch a lot of old films and repeat. It was way easier for European L2 speakers of English to understand me that way, which is why I picked it up.